Accidents & Disasters – Newsletter for March 1, 2011

NEW DELHI – A Delhi court Tuesday sent Lalit Bhanot and V.K. Verma, former high ranking officials of the Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organising Committee, to 14 days’ judicial custody in connection with financial lapses in a contract with a Swiss company.

PANCHKULA – A woman and her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter were killed and her husband and nine-year-old son injured after a reversing bus mowed them down while they were asleep here early Tuesday, said the police.

PATNA – Four children in this Bihar capital were injured Tuesday when a crude bomb kept in a dustbin exploded, police said.

The incident took place near Gandhi Maidan. The children — who have been admitted to a hospital where their condition was stated to be stable — were playing near the dustbin.
… Read the original article on Gaea Times at : Four children injured in Patna explosion.

NEW DELHI – Hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani was stopped at the Delhi airport Tuesday by Delhi Police personnel who took him for questioning in connection with a money laundering case, police said.

“Geelani was to board a flight to Srinagar when Delhi Police stopped him and took him to a Special …. Source article on Gaea Times at : Geelani stopped at Delhi airport.

AHMEDABAD – A special court here Tuesday sent to the gallows 11 people and gave life imprisonment to 20 others for the February 2002 burning of a train coach in Gujarat’s Godhra town, in which 59 people were killed triggering a communal frenzy that claimed an estimated 1,000 lives in the state.

SRINAGAR – An ex-army major, wanted for the 1996 disappearance and murder of a lawyer and rights activist, has surfaced in California and reportedly said the Al Qaeda is present in Jammu and Kashmir – a claim strongly denied by the authorities here who are now planning to seek his extradition.

CHRISTCHURCH – The toll in the devastating earthquake in New Zealand’s second largest city of Christchurch rose to 155, a media report said Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the government has launched a probe into why the Canterbury Television (CTV) building collapsed in last Tuesday’s 6.3 magnitude quake where many bodies are still thought be lying buried in …. Source : New Zealand quake toll reaches 155.

AHMEDABAD – A special court here Tuesday sent to the gallows 11 people and gave life imprisonment to 20 others for the February 2002 burning of a train coach in Gujarat’s Godhra town that killed 59 people and triggered a communal frenzy, which claimed an estimated 1,000 lives in the state.

AHMEDABAD – A special court Tuesday sentenced 11 people to death and 20 to life imprisonment for setting a train coach on fire in Gujarat’s Godhra town in February 2002. The Godhra train burning — which claimed 59 lives — triggered a communal frenzy in the state in which 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed.
…. Read the original article : 11 get death for Godhra train burning, 20 sentenced to life.

San Juan, March 1 (IANS/EFE) A group of Puerto Rican music stars Monday denounced

the crime wave sweeping the Caribbean island, where this weekend a hail of bullets took the lives of two new victims at a crowded concert.
Merengue singer Elvis Crespo told a press conference of his “pain and sorrow” for the … Read more »»».

LUCKNOW – Goods worth around Rs.50 lakh were gutted when a fire broke out in a wholesale grain market governed by the State Agriculture Produce and Marketing Board in Uttar Pradesh’s Mainpuri town, police said. There were no casualties.

The fire engulfed around 28 establishments of the Mainpuri Mandi Samiti in Kotwali Shehar area, following … Read more >>>.

COPENHAGEN – A Danish ship with seven crew members on board has been captured by pirates off the coast of Somalia, Denmark’s foreign ministry said Monday evening.

The captured ship is said to be carrying a family of five, including three children aged 12 to 16, their parents, and two other adult helpers, Xinhua reported … Original source on Gaea Times at : Danish ship taken hostage by Somali pirates.

Dubai, Feb 28 (IANS/WAM) Dubai customs have arrested two people who were travelling with 51 counterfeit creadit cards worth AED 1 million ($270,000).

The counterfeit cards were recovered Sunday from an Asian passenger who intended to smuggle them for use in the UAE market, Ali Almaghwai, Senior Manager of Airport Passenger Operation Department, said.
… Read the original article on Gaea Times at : Dubai customs bust credit card racket.